Angus King Quotes
When people asked me in a RV park, 'What do you do?' I just said, 'I'm a retired state employee from Maine.'
Quotes to Explore
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.
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To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.
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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
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I feel like people always wanna define me and I don’t wanna be defined.
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Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.
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When people asked me in a RV park, 'What do you do?' I just said, 'I'm a retired state employee from Maine.'
